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By: Todd Winner Underwater abstracts or detail shots are a fun style to add to your portfolio. Not only can these type of images be stunning but they are a great go to shot when visibility is less than ideal. Underwater abstracts look great printed, especially large canvas or metal prints. They are a nice…

By: Todd Winner The black background macro shot is something every underwater photographer should have in their portfolio. It’s fairly easy to pull off and it produces nice clean uncluttered compositions. We use small apertures and fast shutter speeds to block any ambient light and the subject is 100% strobe lit. The most important ingredient…

By Todd Winner The spin shot is one of the easier motion shots to pull off because you create the movement by spinning the camera and not relying on the subject to move though your frame to show motion. It works well with static subjects but I have also used it on sharks and other…

By Todd Winner I often get new photographers that sign up for a local trip or one of our photo workshops that are struggling to get good underwater macro shots. Nine times out of ten they have their camera set to one of the auto exposer modes. Unfortunately, these rarely work well for macro underwater.…

By: Todd Winner and Michael Zeigler It has been a few months since our first drone blog post DJI Phantom 4 – First Flight. The Phantom 4 continues to perform well under some pretty harsh conditions. We often subject it to long bumpy boat rides and salty sea air. It has even traveled to Mexico with us…

By Todd Winner and Michael Zeigler As underwater photographers we spend a lot of time on boats. We often anchor close to beautiful islands and if you’re like us then you can’t resist taking pictures of them. But we found it hard to capture the look and feel of some of the places we visit…

By Michael Zeigler and Todd Winner As anyone who has experienced a dive amongst the underwater structure of an oil rig would tell you, there’s sense of wonder and a rush of adrenaline makes this type of dive like no other. Add to that a blanket of darkness, and you’ve got yourself a recipe for an…

By: Todd Winner Spending an entire dive finding and photographing something the size of a flea is not going to be for everyone. I have wanted to shoot ladybug amphipods since the first image I saw of them and Komodo is known for some of the most colorful ones. My goal was to get some…

While heading toward Two Harbors at Catalina Island, one is sure to notice the guano-covered landmark known as Bird Rock. The most recent Samy’s Demo Day took place here, and the guests were not disappointed at the variety of structure and marine life that greeted them.

By: Todd Winner and Michael Zeigler We had been looking into purchasing a drone for some time now. We wanted take advantage of the incredible scenery available to us when out on the water for a day of diving. The DJI Phantom 4 seemed to fit all of the right requirements without the need to…